Current Professional Doctoral Programme Scholars

• Terence Ahern (Supervisors: Dr. PJ Byrne, Prof. Brian Leavy)
  Strategic supply chain practices in the delivery of public transport infrastructure projects in the Irish public sector
• Eric Brady (Supervisor: Dr. Edel Conway)
  An examination of the extent, depth and usefulness of social networks (internal and external) within the leadership cadre of both public and private sector organisations
• Sinead Brennan (Supervisor: Dr. Edel Conway)
  Identifying and Deploying High Potential Talent for Succession Planning
• Anthony Briody (Supervisor: Dr. Malcolm Brady)
  Managing Services Outsourcing in the Telecommunications Sector – A Case Study
• Maria Cahill (Supervisor: Dr. Finian Buckley)
  Developing Entrepreneurship among Second Level Students
• Christopher Cullen (Supervisor: Prof. Brian Leavy)
  Participative or Collaborative Management within Project Structures
• Tom Doyle (Supervisor: Dr. Anne Sinnott, Dr. John Connolly)
  Potential application of service business management practice to higher education
• Diane Dignam (Supervisor: Dr. Finian Buckley)
  Long-term training needs analysis in an Irish Context
• Lucy Fallon Byrne (Supervisor: Prof. David Jacobson, Dr. Brian Harney)
  Workplace Innovation in an Organisational Capabilities Framework
• Brian Forbes (Supervisor: Dr. Malcolm Brady)
  Outsourcing in University Physical Resources Management
• Patrick Ivory (Supervisor: Dr. Theo Lynn)
  How can Business Collaboration and Cooperation Contribute to the Development of Industry Clusters to Enhance Innovation and Improve Competitiveness
• James Kavanagh (Supervisor: Dr. Theo Lynn)
  Investment Decision Making by Trustees of Occupational Pension Schemes
• David Kenefick (Supervisor: Dr. Melrona Kirrane)
  A Study of how Senior Management Develop Services and Support Strategy in a Non-profit Organisation
• Patrick Leahy (Supervisor: Dr. Anne Sinnott)
  The Concept of the Customer in the Modern Policing Function
• Karen Lodge (Supervisor: Dr. John Barrett)
  Exploring the Effectiveness of Workplace Partnership in Change Management and Conflict Resolution in the Health Services
• Carol Lynch (Supervisor: Dr. Siobhain McGovern)
  Basel II and Capital Requirements Directive - An Organisational Perspective
• Paul McBride (Supervisor: Dr. Colm O’Gorman)
  The Corporation and the co-operative: using the co-operative as the foundation for a responsible, sustainable, global services business
• Jane McEvoy (Supervisor: Dr. Siobhain McGovern)
  Changing Governance and the Effect on Strategic Planning and Organisational Effectiveness
• Peter Miller (Supervisor: Dr. Edel Conway)
  The Discourse of Performance and the Performance of Discourse – A Discursive Study of Performance Management in Iarnrod Eireann
• Lorcán Ó hÓbáin (Supervisor: Prof. Colm O’Gorman)
  Increasing the level of investment in planned training by Irish SME’s – a CEO centred issue?
• Georgina Roberts (Supervisor: Dr. Anne Sinnott)
  Internationalisation Strategy in Education: Self-Interest Versus International Solidarity
• Peter Robbins (Supervisor: Dr. Siobhain McGovern)
  The Role of Corporate Entrepreneurship and Coalitions of Practice in Accelerating Innovation in Large, Established MNCs
• Anna Shakespeare (Supervisor: Dr. Melrona Kirrane)
  Programme Theory Evaluation of Personal Outcome Measures in the Voluntary Intellectual Disability Sector in Ireland
• Adele Grazi (Supervisor: Dr. Finian Buckley, Dr. Melrona Kirrane)
  Understanding the relation between empathy and silence in the social care practice - a cross-cultural study